Some newer tents use larger tubes at lower pressure. There've been quite a few changes to air beam design over the last couple of years, so pay attention to the inflation instructions for your actual tent. Outfit: Vango airbeam Location: cotswolds Message posted by Rawtenstall 1959 at 4:35pm If you can guy any tent out effectively then it should be able to withstand reasonable bad weather, the problem usually come when guylines start to fail or the ground is so saturated the pegs start to pull. We want to be able to stand up inside, have separate sleeping pods etc. Proper storm proof tents, the likes of Hillibeg, Terra nova etc tend to be of a design that is a compromise that most of us family campers don't want. Most of the "family" style tents have some kind of small print saying they are designed for "moderate" conditions. Let me re-phrase that, if it's windy enough to to flatten a steel poled tent then it's probably going to damage an air beam or a tent with glass fibre poles. Outfit: Illusion TC 800XL A Location: Greater LondonĪn air beam should be no better or worst than any other tent in the wind. Seems to me you did the right thing, at the right time. The trick is deciding when that point is reached. They still have to get taken down when the going gets too tough. Poled tents could well collapse then stay collapsed!Īir tents are not immune from high winds. The advantage with airbeams seems to be that if and when they do collapse, nothing breaks (touch wood!) and they bounce back into shape. As far as I'm aware, those inflatables available on the High Street aren't. Mine is guaranteed to withstand hurricane force, which I believe is 78mph. Admittedly, once up and guyed it stayed up, and winds reputedly reached 60mph gusts that night. Our tent is inflated to 10x that figure you gave for your air beams, and the weekend before last, we had trouble getting ours up in constant winds around the 20mph mark and gusts up to 51mph.
I doubt it's anything to do with pressure once the winds get that bad. Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings Location: Derby. Thanks in advance for all comments and responses. Interested in any comments on either set up or airbeams.
So just wondering if anyone has any tips.are you inflating to 6psi? Do you have a set up that copes with very strong winds? So at 8pm we decided the weather was too bad and we were afraid we'd have 4 scared children by 2am when the predicted storm was to be at its worst so we packed up and went home. Our two tents were being completely flattened, my friends first but when the gusting got bad mine also. However i dont know if even they coped the whole night. The few that stayed put were the big Outwells with metal poles and the big airbeams ie all 6-8 berth with more inflatable sections. Many campers left that day and many sturdy well put up tents started flapping about with camping kit being thrown all round the site. The wind started blowing in all directions and regardless of massive attention to door opening position, all guy ropes in place, tent pegs well driven and correct airbeam pressure at 5(?psi) which they recommend, the tents were still being bent beyond recognition (mine a costly new 4 man vango airbeam and friends an Easycamp 350). We decided to strike camp and move pitch and found what we thought was a more protected part of the site which was time consuming and hard work but we did not want to go home. The first day, Thursday, was ok but then the winds really blew up on Friday afternoon and the forecast was for 70 mph gusts by 2am. The weather forecast had weather warnings for high winds but as very experienced campers and having been there before when fairly windy we went anyway. Probably silly, but we had 4 children between myself and my friend who were excited about the trip which has been planned and booked for several weeks. Last weekend i went camping in the south of England to a cliff edge camp site. And what set up really can cope with high winds.(ps but i need something i can stand up in as i am getting too old for scrabbling round on the floor!) Its a bit of a rambling story but the essence of my problem and question is about the pressure people are using in airbeam tents so the inflatables are sturdy enough and not overblown to risk popping. There have been many discussions about the effects and impact of high winds for people camping in tents and i am seeking a bit of advice from anyone.
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